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Airbus 320-200 – Part Two – A Curate’s Egg
And parts of it are excellent. So far the only cavil is a few lumps in the line of the engine mounts and a short-shot in a trailing edge. Sprue Goo takes care of the latter and a filing stick the former. The fuselage sides are a commendably close fit, and the clear cockpit windows…
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Airbus 320-200 – Part One – Box Scale
Here we go – doin’ things I said I’d never do again. Box scale, and a factory that has turned out some awful junk before… Be fair, me. It has only turned out junk when the moulds they bought from former moulders were time-expired. Some of them were junk in their first iteration, so they…
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Spend Half Your Time Learning How To Do It Right
Then spend the rest learning how to recover when it goes wrong. All kits have flaws…if not in the box, then in the buyer. Something will go awry in the build. If you are fortunate it will be small and early, and you can fix it before you go on. These are the times that…
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Who Judges The Fantasy Model?
And how do they do it? Okay, if you are tasked with reproducing a model of a Willy Ley space ship as seen on a 1950’s Disneyland show, it is still fantasy – but the responsibility for the imagination has been taken out of your hands. Ley and Disney are the ones setting the pace…
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The Old Kid Modeller
As a young kid, your scale model building is limited by one thing: money. You have little of it and are largely dependent upon birthdays and Christmas to supply you with your kits. You may have desires, but you recognise that you’re going to be building whatever you are given. If you are articulate and…
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Local Shop For the Win!
I can get lucky… My air compressor was acting up. Not able to keep pressure in the tank, it was kicking in to boost very 30 seconds. Very different from when I started with it. I took my troubles to my local shop; Hobbytech in Myaree. The youngest chap on the staff was free so…
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Vought Crusader F-8 – Part Four – In The Med
And fresh as a daisy. I was delighted to find very clear photographic support for the French naval air service on the web. A number of the Vought Crusader aircraft that operated from the FOCH and CLEMENCEAU were photographed from the islands of those carriers while taking off or landing – and these evolutions were…
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Vought Crusader F-8 – Part Three – Between Thinners
I was torn between thinners for this Crusader. I had enough Light Gull Grey to do the upper side easily – and a new bottle of semi-gloss white for the under side. But one was a water-based acrylic and the other lacquer based. Would it matter? Was there going to be a fizzing explosion along…
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Vought Crusader F-8 – Part Two – Cockpit Decals
Bless the designer who thought of making decals for the cockpits of 1/72 scale aircraft. I admire the resin parts that people buy for aftermarley – they can be superbly detailed. A worker in 1/48 and larger would certainly get good visual value from a resin seat or control stick. And the PE brass instrument…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 